Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending June 29th 2025, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics.To ensure you never miss a thing or get our email alerts for every article we publish.Florida Citizens exposure shrinks 43% in last year as depopulation accelerated The CEO of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has hailed the ongoing recovery of Florida’s property insurance market, explaining that the insurers policy count now stands some 45% lower than its most recent peak and exposure down 43% in just one year, while market conditions suggest this trend will continue.

First speakers revealed for our Artemis London 2025 conference We announced the first speakers for our upcoming catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, .Join us in London on September 2nd for a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking.ESMA conceptually takes view cat bonds may sit better under a new AIF wrapper framework The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has now published its awaited advice to the European Commission (EC) on its review of the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive (EAD), in which it says its conceptual view is that some alternative assets such as catastrophe bonds may sit better under a different framework than UCITS.

Swiss Re “cleans” GAM Star Cat Bond Fund of private transactions and less liquid ILS The Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Advisors Corporation (SRILIAC) team, the catastrophe bond focused investment management arm of the global reinsurance firm, spent the month of May cleaning less liquid and private transactions from the GAM Star Cat Bond Fund portfolio.Cat bonds, collateralized and ILS managers took 87% of Florida Citizens tower in 2025 Across the entire roughly $4.49 billion reinsurance risk transfer tower of Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation the capital markets have taken their largest share proportionally in 2025, with around 87% of the total backed by catastrophe bonds, collateralized reinsurance markets and ILS fund managers.Markel promotes Nikki-Lynn Marshall to Head of ILS Markel, the global specialty insurer, has promoted Nikki-Lynn Marshall to the role of Head of insurance-linked securities (ILS), after just six months in her previous role with the firm.

Throes of soft reinsurance market still 2–3 years away: Peel Hunt The specialty re/insurance market may be starting to soften, but the inflection point into a full soft market remains two to three years away, according to a new report from Peel Hunt.AXA integrates Group and AXA XL ceded reinsurance teams under Van Hecke leadership AXA has announced that its ceded reinsurance teams from across the entire Group, including AXA XL are coming together under the leadership of Guy Van Hecke, as the firm looks to align strategies and recognise synergies in its reinsurance buying.Florida Citizens 2025 reinsurance and cat bond renewal comes in under budget Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has confirmed that it has successfully completed its reinsurance renewal for the 2025 hurricane season, securing the targeted traditional and catastrophe bond coverage for less than the budget that had been set.

Hurricane losses in 2025 could re-firm reinsurance, but not as much as post-2022: Jefferies While the reinsurance market and its pricing would be expected to re-firm after any large hurricane losses suffered during the 2025 season, it is not expected to drive a severe market hardening as was seen after 2022, according to analysts at investment bank Jefferies.This is not every article published on Artemis during the last week, just the most popular among our readers over the last seven days..

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